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Open Research Week will return from 16–20 March 2026, uniting Open University researchers and partners to explore how open practices drive engagement, innovation and societal benefit.

The businesses selected to receive funding from the Open Business Creators Fund for Women in Business, (delivered by The Open University and sponsored by NatWest) have been announced.

A major state-wide literacy programme in Brazil is demonstrating how Open University research is informing public policy at scale, following its high profile presentation at BETT London 2026 by São Paulo’s Secretary of Education, Renato Feder.

The Open University is proud to announce its inclusion in the National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC) consortium as part of NBIC’s sixth accession round.

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the only place that harbours life.

The Floodplain Meadows Partnership, led by The Open University, has been awarded a further three years of funding from the Foundation for the Third Millennium.

The government has recently released its national youth strategy, which promises better career advice for young people in England.

Dr Ilias Kounatidis, from the School of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship grant from the UK’s national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source.

The government is proposing a change in the law on parental child abduction. The crime and policing bill, under consideration in parliament, would make it a crime for a parent to take their child on holiday and then not return them at the end of the agreed holiday period.

The Open University hosted its second lecture in its Global Development Annual Lecture series on 20 November 2025.